The world's first AI investment bank is looking to conquer Wall Street. I sat down with @leveredvlad to understand what they are doing, how their technology works, and why this is a better model.

tech people despise ibankers until the day they realize they really need someone smart, commercial, capable with people + numbers, who can take a lot of pain to get the job done, and then they desperately try to hire them (or ones that have been techwashed by a year in “bizops”)

The first AI investment bank is looking to disrupt the incumbent firms. Entire businesses are going to lose to people who can harness this new technology.

IN NEWS: @tryoffdeal has raised a $12M Series A. We brought CEO Ori Eldarov (@leveredvlad) on the show to talk about founding the first AI-native investment bank. "I'd be lying if I said we didn't consider building software for banks." "But we saw how bureaucratic large banks and how long it takes to inact any meaningful change. Call transcription was the number 1 requested feature (even though Zoom exists)." "I kept thinking, if I was running my own bank, I would do it completely differently." "We decided to go all in on building our own investment bank from scratch."

OffDeal raises a $12M Series A round led by Radical Ventures to build the first AI-native investment bank. Founded by @leveredvlad (ex-Wall Street banker) and @alstonthelin (former Meta engineer), OffDeal uses custom software to automate back-office workflows like pitch decks and buyer outreach, allowing its lean in-house team to focus purely on negotiation and closing. The firm has closed 10+ deals and is targeting $100M in revenue by 2027. As Ori Eldarov (Co-Founder & CEO) puts it: "We're building what Goldman Sachs would look like if it were started today." We're bringing him on today at 12:50 PM PT to break it all down.

tech nerds in sf have such a narrow idea of entrepreneurship there are so many disciplines that mimic the same business skillset as a startup music artists, content creators, dropshippers, shitposters, standup comedians, onlyfans models, and authors are all founders too

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